A couple companies announced a new breed of high speed solid state drives. The new solid state drive offer incredible throughput with a random access bandwidth exceeding 24 GB / second. I wouldn't mind one of these bad boys in my apartment. The new drives are geared toward data centers and SAN locations.

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The Tera-RamSan holds between 384 and 1024 GB of fast, non-volatile DDRRAM storage in three to 8 independent SSD modules, each containing its own wide array of redundant high-availability features. If more capacity is required, simply install additional modules without interruption of the system.

Here is a great video from Samsung demonstrating a flash hard drive (SSD) in contrast to a conventional hard drive. The SSD drive boot windows vista in 36.29 seconds compared to 1:03.00 seconds for the standard hard drive.